Trish Miller, left, and Kristine Hewitt, have led the other employees at Thomson Plastics in providing toys and gifts for 85 area children served by Agape Outreach Ministries. Photo by Wayne Parham.

The employees at Thomson Plastics are making sure 85 area children have Christmas gifts this year.
Initially, workers at the plant had planned to provide gifts for 60 children — the same as they did last year. But, nearly all of those kids were “adopted” by employees on the first day so organizers had to ask for more children to help.
The annual toy and gif t drive for children started last year after two women decided to give it a shot. Each had worked in other locations and been a part of similar toy drives.

To read more on this story, see the Wed., Dec. 19, edition of The McDuffie Progress.